Stendhal

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God’s will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.

If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

It’s not about approving or liking, but just being able to allow the world to be the way it is without resenting, hating, or judging it.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

The wild geese do not intend to cast their reflections. The water has no mind to receive their images.

Don’t rush anything. When the time is right, it’ll happen.

God has no religion.

Don’t worry that you won’t attain oneness. Work on it!

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.